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I rejoice at this opportunity
to offer you my fraternal greeting.
I wish that instead of this general
salutation I could take you each by
the hand and greet you in a more
personal, more social and less formal
manner. But as I do not see any
such pleasant exercise set down on
the programme I will, figuratively
speaking, get just as near to you as
the lofty proprieties of a speech will
let me.
There are several sort of
public harangue, such as, for ex-
ample the oration, the address,
the lecture, and the talk. The ora-
tion is, as you know a very elevated

Box 2, Folder 14: A speech given by Welch about the benefits of agricultural education on successful farming. He argues that the farmer needs educational training to successfully form and execute plans, fight insects, care for animals properly, and deal with bad weather.

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I rejoice at this opportunity
to offer you my fraternal greeting.
I wish that instead of this general
salutation I could take you each by
the hand and greet you in a more
personal, more social and less formal
manner. But as I do not see any
such pleasant exercise set down on
the programme I will, figuratively
speaking, get just as near to you as
the lofty proprieties of a speech will
let me.
There are several sort of
public harangue, such as, for ex-
ample the oration, the address,
the lecture, and the talk. The ora-
tion is, as you know a very elevated